Let's be honest. We should probably harbor some level of hate for Public Enemy and Anthrax for giving birth to the Rap-Rock genre when they collaborated on Bring the Noise. Because 99% of Rap-Rock, I can confidently say, is utter fucking garbage. However, PE and Anthrax did it so right with Bring the Noise that its impossible to hate, regardless of what it led to. In summary, Bring the Noise is awesome.
You know what else is awesome? This Bulls-Celtics series. Game 7s. Title fights from Vegas. Saturday night.
Guess what asshole...we get all that tonight.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
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if the celts/bulls game is even close to as good as that song, we'll get our money's worth. love that tune.
ReplyDeleteben gordon. gracious.
ReplyDeleteceltics missing a lot of open jumpers - that's the cost of having no inside game.
ReplyDeleteBoston has an inside game. Its just not an inside game that can be looked to for consistent points as the primary option. Davis and Perkins are quite adequate garbage men and energy guys.
ReplyDeletei think we're saying the same thing. they can't go inside for offense, so they're settling for jumpers, and they're missing open ones. except that now they've started making everything and they've had a nice little run of interior passing, so i'll just shut up.
ReplyDeleteI'll agree with what you're saying. Eddie House is kind of making it a moot point right now anyway.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, the fact that neither of these teams have much consistent interior scoring is part of what has contributed to this series being so exciting. Watching guards and wings create opportunities off the dribble and nail long jumpshots is infinitely more exciting/interesting than watching interior-centric teams bang and push each other around over 7 games.
i'll buy that. watching gordon and allen curl off screens and hit deep jumpers with a hand in their faces is a thing of beauty. truly.
ReplyDeletea mikki moore sighting!
ReplyDeleteI hope Mikki Moore has properly compensated Jason Kidd for the contract that Moore signed with Sacramento...
ReplyDeletei'm no math major, but that was a 22-2 run to close the half, no?
ReplyDeleterondo a little payback for rose.
ReplyDeleteI've always been a Rondo fan, going back to Kentucky (which is saying something considering my allegiances) but, yeah he's dirty. John Stockton style dirty. He lives within the grey area.
ReplyDeleterondo's got karl malone's shoulders and john salley's arms. he's a weirdly shaped cat.
ReplyDeleteExtremely.
ReplyDeleteI think he may have been acting it up a bit after Noah's foul. Just a hunch.
That's another entertaining aspect of this series, these teams seem to have developed a genuine dislike for one another. Its nice to see that in the NBA again.
Pretty cool clip of Ray Allen playing knockout with the Celtics ballboys. I used to love me some knockout.
ReplyDeletei've got my weekly run tomorrow at 10 - we'll see how much jazzfest took out of my legs.
ReplyDeleterose is keeping the bulls in this game.
ReplyDeleteRose is soooo much better than I thought he was coming into this year.
ReplyDeletehmmmmm
ReplyDeletelindsey hunter's 38? that fucker's old. oh. right.
ReplyDeleteeddie house, dagger. and then, dumbass.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good thing that Eddie House isn't a better player, because he's really fucking annoying.
ReplyDeleteAnd 38 is ancient.
ReplyDeletetell me about it. i'm 5 weeks from 39.
ReplyDeleterose is wondering how all his college buddies got on the celtics - he's having free throw flashbacks.
ReplyDeletethree shitty, panicky possessions in a row for the bulls.
ReplyDeleteEvery NBA guy should be "dirty" like Rondo.
ReplyDeletewow, that score change is huge. i can't remember ever seeing that.
ReplyDeleteTR, don't get me wrong. I love Rondo. He just, in football terms, plays to the echo of the whistle. And yeah, I too, wish more NBA players played as hard/cared as much as him.
ReplyDeletethat house shot was ridiculous.
ReplyDeletewould another overtime be too much to ask?
ReplyDeletePacquiao-Hatton doesn't start for another 40 minutes, so I'm game.
ReplyDeleteother than the olympics, i don't think i've seen a live boxing match since whitaker/chavez in the early 90s. pea got robbed, but it worked out for me because i was holding the betting pot and nobody bet on 'draw'. we all drank well that evening.
ReplyDeleteI was in high school and I was apoplectic over that result (Greg's mom used to make us listen to SAT vocab tapes on the way to basketball camp in the summer).
ReplyDeleteMy old man loves boxing and he passed it on to me. So, there are a select few fights per year that I buy or go somewhere to watch. I like Pac a lot and am not so much of a fan of Hatton. The same goes for their trainers. However, styles (and in this case, sizes) make fights) so this fight has the potential to be great. I just hope my $50 is worth it.
i've always had a soft spot for the pea, as our tale of the tape was almost exactly the same during my freshman year of college. so similar, in fact, that the kind brothers of pi lambda phi made me stand next to the television and mimic his moves during a live fight while i was pledging. he beat the shit out of chavez that night - one might argue that the venue (san antonio) and its' proximity to chavez' homeland played a role.
ReplyDeleteI have a very healthy fear of Boston. But, with their injuries, I feel like the Celtics are a better matchup for Orlando.
ReplyDeleteThats a pretty solid story. Pee's not doing so well these days. And, I'd add the fact that Don King promoted that fight to the list of reasons for its curious conclusion.
ReplyDeletedon king. yeah, that's probably a better explanation.
ReplyDeleteMark,
ReplyDeleteSPOILER OF FIGHT -
I didn't catch the fight but am pretty surprised at how quickly Pacman dispatched with Ricky (glad I didn't fork over the money). Ricky, while immensely likeable, is a thug, a bruiser, with very little actual boxing skill. He just gets close and mugs his opponent and most guys don't have the quickness and/or firepower to fend him off (I think of him as a much-more-active, and therefore more visually pleasing, version of Johnny Ruiz). Paulie Malignaggi (probably butchering the spelling) was faster than Hatton but his noodle arms couldn't scare him and Ricky was able get close. But then Floyd, pretty much the fastest guy in boxing, exposed his lack of skill, being able to keep his distance and pot-shot him when he wanted, but Floyd doesn't have anything near the power that Manny has. Unfortunately for Hatton, he doesn't have a second trick in his bag to adjust to a legitimate attack. And I'm not sure how Mayweather Sr. was any help to Ricky, given the language-barrier and all...
The 24-7 HBO series leading up to the fight was pretty enjoyable; the most surprising part being that Michael Moorer is getting into training. He seems pretty cerebral, with a higher-than-average boxing IQ.
I would happily slap down 50 bucks to see Manny tangle with Floyd. Manny is the only guy that comes close to Floyd in speed, but seems much more hittable than Floyd.
I agree wholeheartedly on your assessment of Ricky Hatton. He also benefited from not fighting the highest caliber of fighters for much of his early career, which makes his legacy and record seem better than they really are. I watched the fight and it was clear early on that Pac was too quick and too skilled for Hatton. Plus, as you mentioned, Pac's power when he was able to catch Hatton made for a pretty quick fight. I expected Pac to win, but not so quickly and in such a dominating fashion.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, I too was surprised at how good Michael Moorer seemed to be as an Asst. Trainer. Roach must've seen that in him as a fighter to ask him to join him on his staff.
I'd be more excited by a Manny-Floyd fight than any boxing match in the last decade. Of course, I'm sure somebody in boxing will find a way to screw that up...
this morning's washington post points out how less-than-thrilled abc is having to televise heat/hawks game 7 instead of lebron game 1. i concur.
ReplyDeleteWade might do them a solid - another 40 point performance would not be surprising in these circumstances.
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